Join us from 6 to 9pm on December 20th at the Ivana Helsinki Concept Store to sew draw string bags from beautiful Ivana Helsinki fabrics for a last minute gift, as clever gift wrapping, or to carry your gorgeous Ivana Helsinki present to yourself!

Join us on July 17 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a night of machine sewing and crocheting at the Etsy Labs in Brooklyn. Choose one of two projects and leave with the perfect reusable tote. Bags for the people will be teaching how to sew our signature draw-string market bags and Clair of Montclair Made will be teaching how to crochet your cache of plastic bags into a woven bag. Bring your plastic collection (she recommends 20-30 bags), spin them into “plarn,” and crochet into the perfect picnic tote.

Los Angeles became the largest city in the nation to approve a ban on plastic carry bags. The City Council voted 13 to 1 to phase out plastic bags over the next 16 months at an estimated 7,500 stores, meaning shoppers will need to bring reusable bags or purchase paper bags for 10 cents each. Read more at the LA Times Blog.

Bags for the People will be participating in the Brooklyn Skillshare Community Alternatives to Capitalism at LaunchPad(721 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238) in Crown Heights. This is a Mutual Aid Help on May Day: A day without the 99% in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street. While you don’t have to have an opinion on the movement, you can still come out and learn! Our slot will be from 2:45pm to 3:45pm.

GrowNYC, The Interdependence Project, Bags for the People, and the Pratt Public Project Initiative have kicked off a greener greenmarket on Earth Day, placing forth sustainable environmental programs(composting, textile recycling, e-waste recycling) at all the greenmarkets throughout NYC as well as implementing the early phases of a plan to rid New Yorkers of plastic bags!

Instrumental to this plastic bag plan was the Pratt Public Project and The Interdependance Project’s plastic bag mandala. The mandala helped to bring awareness, cooperation, and action to the public about the ill effects of plastic bags and what positive action can be done. Greenmarket patrons signed a pledge, placed their plastic bag on the mandala, and received a free reusable bag.

The original uncut “Planet Earth” series, which has captivated audiences around the world in over 130 countries, comes to BBC America as part of a very special two-day celebration of Earth Day, Saturday April 21 & Sunday April 22. This weekend marathon marks the first time that the series will be broadcast in its entirety and with its original narrator, world famous naturalist Sir David Attenborough, in the U.S. (Episode 1 – From Pole to Pole, TRT: 60 minutes)

Then, go behind-the-scenes for a World Premiere two-hour special, “The Making of Planet Earth,” which details the incredible adventures of the wildlife filmmakers who traveled all over the planet to create Planet Earth. Featuring exclusive new interviews with the award-winning team behind the epic eleven-part series. (The Making of Planet Earth, TRT: approx 88 min)

WHEN:
April 21, 2012
7:00PM Doors Open
7:45PM Planet Earth Begins

WHERE:
On the pier at Solar One
2420 FDR Drive,(23rd Street at the East River) New York, NY 10010
Subway: Take the R/6 trains to 23rd St., walk all the way east.

This is a free event. The first 250 people in attendance get a free ticket that can be used for any Rooftop Films show this summer–including opening night.